it is likely, however i am ttelling you now, its not going to happen in the next couple of days people are going to be very shocked ! i think that GT5 is going to do 3 million in its first week, all these news of France, spain, itilay, it seems like GT% is going BUZERK in EMEA ! and people are seriously underestmating GT% in the Americas ! its going to have a massive opeing week there just like EMEA and JAPAN as i said i reckon its extremly unlickely however anything could happend...

Really Gamestop is horrible?  I'm a district manager for Gamestop and I can tell you straight up we are far from horrible.

Shoulda told him this: 

I have just had bad experience with that business for a very long time. Ranging from over pricing used games. Trying to sell used games as new ones. A new sticker with a scratched game IS NOT NEW. How can you sell a USED 60GB PS3 for 300-350 dollars? Hopefully you are an exception.

Really over pricing pre-owned games?  This is the most hilarious argument we here all the time.  The problem is that gamers apparently don't know anything about how you run a business.  You do realize we have to make a profit correct?  You also do realize that we buy more games from customers than we sell back to customers at over a 2:1 ratio correct?  That means that for every one game we sell back to another customer there's another one we bought off someone that is just sitting back in the stock room or warehouses that is just lost money.  On top of that you have to factor in not every dollar of a resale goes to straight OMGZ GUYZ GAMESTOP PROFIT! LETS SCREW GAMERS! We also have to pay the expenses of our over 5,000 stores and thousand upon thousands of employees.  Not to mention money that we pay to Nintendo, Sony, EA, Activision, etc for other promotional deals.  

Are there going to be some problems?  Of course any time you factor in the human element there will stuff that slips through the cracks but the hate we get at Gamestop is straight up laughable.  I personally manage and know several hundred employee's and I can tell you right now nearly every one of them loves games and gaming in general just as much as anyone else on these forums and quite frankly its not cool the way they get disrespected.

Anyways I won't take up anymore of this space going off topic.

Why did you do that?  If she wanted backwards compatibility, why do you jump in and tell her otherwise?  At this point a PS3 a PS2 (to play PS2 games) would cost more than a backwards compatible PS3, wouldn't it?  Or is it that you feel PS2 games are no longer worth the time?  To finish up what you are doing, if she wasn't interested in a Blu-Ray player, why not talk her into getting a 360 while you were at it?

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@ OP

Nope.

She said her son still had a PS2. Why would you need a backwards compatible used over priced PS3 when you still own a perfectly good PS2? I also asked her about the 360 but she said that her son specifically told her ONLY a PS3.

I really doubt it. Between Japan and EMEAA the gap will likely be around 300k. PS3 would need to do beyond horrible in Americas to be that far behind 360 assuming Wii beat 360.

How?  Because, outside of harddrive size, it is superior to the newer PS3 models that have less features, particularly a lack of backwards compatibility.  Like, how many USB ports does the newer PS3 model have?  My 60GB model has 4.  With that, I can hook up Move, a USB keyboard, and have room for two controllers. 

Anyhow, I would speak about your comments about Gamestop in general.  They are what they are.  They managed to be able to sell videogames and specialize in that area being able to be operated by fanboys the way that McDonalds is able to be operated by teenagers.